Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. flame retardant . But the problem is flammability standards, and back in the '70s, several flammability standards were
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. flame retardant problem, and so these are some suggestions.
And because California is such a huge market, most manufacturers didn't make furniture for the rest of the world and furniture for California. They just added flame retardant chemicals to everything. So the problem is that many of these chemicals are associated with all kinds of health problems-- so endocrine problems, and developmental problems, growth
is going into your baby's body and staying, what would the mom say? So this is the flame retardant that was used from 1975 until 2004 to meet TB 117.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. So we send out flame retardant messages once a month, and adventure messages about four times a year.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. harm for many flame retardant .
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. the newest flame retardant .
is going into your baby's body and staying, what would the mom say? If you want to reduce your own flame retardant exposure, it's not a bad time to buy new furniture or to swap out the foam in your furniture for safer foam
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. The center one is that flame retardant , and then the bottom ones are dioxins and furans, which are really harmful, so it's a chemical that's halfway in structure
And in order to get around this problem, the state of California mandated that furniture meet a certain flame-resistant standard. And the way that manufacturers achieved the standard was by adding flame retardant chemicals. And because California is such a huge market, most manufacturers didn't make furniture for the rest of the world and furniture for California.
is going into your baby's body and staying, what would the mom say? But it has instead ended up that the toxic flame retardant chemicals are in most Americans' bodies.
is going into your baby's body and staying, what would the mom say? And I'd go to hearings where the lobbyists for the flame retardant industry would be saying it's not sound science to say there's
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. The chemical used to protect all the furniture uses a flame retardant until it was banned globally in 2005.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. So a woman who has a higher level of this flame retardant -- this is the one that was banned, but is in
However, what we didn't know then is it continued to be used, for example, in furniture. And in 2005, when a very bad flame retardant was banned from use in our furniture, it was replaced with chlorinated tris, which was then banned in 2012.
is going into your baby's body and staying, what would the mom say? So the average California child has lost four to five IQ points just from this flame retardant penta.
OK, so this is what I like to call, in the zone of uncertainty. And the reason for that is because, when we're talking about flame retardant chemicals, there are thousands of different chemicals that are out there in the wild that are being used. And most of them have actually not been rigorously studied for their effects on human health.
And some manufacturers do. So you can find a sofa-- Ikea makes them, which is where we got non-flame retardant sofa is from Ikea. And you can buy baby products that also don't have flame retardants added to them.
And it was published in Science Magazine a couple months later. And if you read the subtitle of the paper, the main flame retardant in children's pajamas is a mutagen and should not be used.
is going into your baby's body and staying, what would the mom say? And one of the professors said, the students should not touch that PBDE flame retardant except wearing full gear and a fume hood.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. I had some of the highest levels in the world, very high levels of this toxic flame retardant , 97 parts per million in my dust.
They're in your house. Any place that has foam, in particular, is often treated with flame retardant chemicals. So recently, about 2013, the state of California reversed its technical bulletin.
And he said, well, why don't you look at the flame retardants in children's sleepwear? He said, right now, pretty much all the kids in America are wearing pajamas that are 10% by weight a flame retardant called brominated tris. And I think it might get from the pajamas into the children, and it's a cancer-causing chemical, I think.
It's not important. It turns out protein folding is really important, how proteins fold, for lots of things. But I want to do something environmental, and he said, you know, I'm kind of worry about this flame retardant in kid's pajamas. It looks like it's a carcinogen to me, and it's actually 10% of the weight of all the kid's pajamas in the
because it really says what our Institute is now doing. So the subtitle, which I can't read back there, "The main flame retardant in children's pajamas is a mutagen and should not be used." For those of you read scientific papers, is that an unusual title?